Modules Professional Practice

Two internships are included in the curriculum of your degree programme. Module UWMRN 1.7 Professional Practice is a six-week compulsory internship, Module UWMRN 2.14 In-depth Professional Practice is a compulsory elective module.

Guideline for the compulsory internship

This guideline provides assistance on the procedure for carrying out compulsory internships within the framework of the Master's degree programme in Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management as well as on the preparation of the required internship report.

Aims and duration of the internship

(according to module description)

You will complete your internship as part of the compulsory module UWMRN 1.7 Professional Practice. You will thus gain experience in the application of the specialist knowledge acquired during your studies in everyday working life due to the practical work and open up a variety of potential fields of employment.

You will complete your internship as part of the compulsory module UWMRN 1.7 Professional Practice. You will thus gain experience in the application of the specialist knowledge acquired during your studies in everyday working life due to the practical work and open up a variety of potential fields of employment.

You will understand work processes due to operational involvement, have participated in solving practical problems, and know operational contexts, employee leadership and operational management. You are able to establish the connection between scientific knowledge and professional reality in practical work.

You are able to apply the knowledge acquired during your studies under the guidance and supervision of experienced professionals from science and practice. You are able to work independently on projects of medium to long duration to be carried out within a team.

Upon completion of the module, you will not only have gained an insight into the professional contexts of the world of work, but will also have further strengthened your social competences and project management skills.

The internship comprises 240 working hours to be completed at the internship institution or by arrangement and contractual arrangement in the form of mobile working/home office. This corresponds to a full-time internship of 6 weeks.

When and how the required internship is to be completed should be specified in the internship contract. In principle, an internship exceeding the required scope is possible.

Internship place and internship contract

You can complete your internship in private companies, public authorities or other non-university internship institutions. In principle, each student looks for a suitable internship place him/herself. Suggestions can be found, for example, in the list of internships already completed, which is regularly updated by your examinations office, and in the overview of current job and internship advertisements known to us. The confirmation that it is a compulsory internship within the scope of the module description will be issued by the Examinations Office upon request; this can be requested by e-mail.

Before the start of an internship, a written internship contract should be concluded between the intern and the internship institution. For the effectiveness of this contract under private law, the observance of a certain form is not prescribed. There is no TU Dresden template for the internship contract.

Registration of the internship and supervision

Registration for the internship can take place at any time via the SELMA examination portal. The regular, specified registration periods for examinations are not to be taken into account for this module, but registration must always take place before the start of the internship or shortly after the start of the internship, in case the internship comes about at short term. The examination office registers the registration and the period of the internship.

Before starting the internship at the TU Dresden, please find a supervisor from among the university teachers or lecturers working in the Master's programme in Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management as the internal internship supervisor responsible for the chosen internship position or topic. Supervision by staff members of the IOER Leibnitz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development can only take place if they are directly involved in the degree programme. Arrangements can already be made regarding the topic, scope and further requirements of the report to be submitted (2-5 pages as a guideline).

For the module UWMRN 2.14 Deepening Professional Practice, only university lecturers from the group of lecturers of the degree programme are to be selected, as the examination performance to be submitted is a graded seminar paper.

Required internship certificates and submission deadlines

The internship report, the confirmation and evaluation by the internship institution (https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/geo/ressourcen/dateien/pramt/studieng-rn/formulare/RN_MSc_Praktikum2_beschein.pdf?lang=de) as well as the grading form (https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/geo/ressourcen/dateien/pramt/studieng-rn/formulare/RN_MSc_Praktikum_3_Bericht.pdf?lang=de)must be submitted to the internal internship supervisor responsible for the subject within four weeks after completion of the internship or as agreed with the supervisor.

Advice on the internship report

After completing the internship, the student must submit an internship report of two to five pages.

In the report, the essential training contents in the various areas of the internship activity are to be described in an overview. If you completed the internship in the form of mobile work/home office, this should be addressed in the internship report. The internship report should conform to university standards in both form and content.

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Last modified: May 17, 2023